you know it's on r t pro-government militias in libya keep up the deadly assault and siege on colonel gadhafi its former stronghold of bani will be with reports that chemical gas is being. america's global position is the topic for some of these final turn on television with the two toiling in the polls voters have a tough time telling them apart we've got in depth come. first fresh unrest reported in beirut with five injured after a weekend of violent clashes sparked by the assassination of a senior lebanese intelligence official. crosses the energy giant down one of the

hills above the. points that make it look largest public traded in the wild and. over a good evening for me kevin are we here in moscow tonight it's eleven pm this is our this is our top story libyan pro-government militias continuing to pound the besieged town of bani walid as the standoff over the gadhafi stronghold intensifies another claims that chemical gas is being used to meet face clashes on the outskirts of the town they've killed over twenty people across the weekend and left many more wounded hundreds of terrified families have fled their homes are really going to reports we're getting reports from bani walid a town which essentially has been besieged by the pro-government forces for eighteen days straight especially in the last five days have been marred by very

intense fire exchanged now residents of the town that we have been in contact with say that they are now starting to run out of food water and medical for. why is there they're saying that the town has been shelled nonstop essentially that the pro-government forces are being extremely brutal in your attempt to almost smoke people out of the tallent one of the men that we have spoken to talked about the pro-government forces using some sort of chemical gas all of that the residents of the body while the let's have a listen to what else he has to say out of a. book . or. on t.v. has also obtained what appears to be a fax from one of the hospitals in bani walid which seems to confirm the fact that

the patients are indeed suffering from the toxic gas poisoning again this fax has not been independently verified but it is believed to be written and signed by the doctors in one of the hospitals who are saying that the patients are suffering from difficulties in breathing from the secretions and didn't clean in heart rate the reaction in libya to the fighting which has been going on in bani walid of course is the extreme and now we have people there is darting to pull out of the hilltop town there are literally we're hearing reports of people lining up almost only outskirts of the body will be trying to get out we're also hearing of course the reports about former residents of bani walid who have marched on the government building in the capital tripoli demanding that the government stop the seizure of bani walid they were dispersed by i use firearms which were fired in the air there was also a case in gaza where people have attacked and ransacked an american television

channel. apparently because they were very displeased with the way that the portrayal. the siege of bani walid of what is being broadcast all of this is just part of the ongoing situation in libya which has not gotten any better in the years since the death of more market duffey of course we still have hot pockets of confrontation between the pro-government forces and the people who still support gadhafi but they're breaking out sporadically all over the country there are also groups armed groups which are known to have links with al qaida we know about the attack on the u.s. embassy which has happened not too long ago or that as a result the american ambassador to libya was killed that the libyan government of course is saying that danny walid is what they call it unfortunate talent to hold for outlaws mercenaries and conduct his supporters and hence the shelling off jalan the again i'm reminding you eighteen days they have been besieging one town and it does not seem like the situation in libya is getting any better it does look indeed

like it's a deja vu of a year ago all over again a correspondent in tel aviv there will have to spoken to one man in italy whose family is him but he will lead us not to reveal his identity because he's scared for the safety. i have a call from my family in they told me that the situation there right there is really horrible there. are horrible of karloff weapon everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen down even the burning oil it has with we don't have a lot of medicine right now the house the hospital keep in the wounded people outside from the hospital three week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but nobody the clothes and the rolls that it is the food in the fuel there are one and burn oil it from the three sides they used to house that and the grad rockets and the guys weapons and actually found even a gas mask because the reports of the hospital very clearly that the civilians

there. the final t.v. show will be for barack obama and mitt romney they're running neck and neck right now they're expected to ramp up the rhetoric there to secure those much needed last minute votes foreign policy's going to be in the frame later monday and it's part of our tease in-depth coverage you can look at how much difference there really is between the two candidates. as we're waiting for the debate on foreign policy the last debate before the election on november the sixth many see it as the make or break point for both campaigns because president obama and governor romney have so far been running neck and neck but whoever is elected america's next commander in chief will take on the same old foreign policy mission and that is to expand the country's influence in the world but is there that much daylight between the candidates let's try and find out the rhetoric of the romney team leaves no doubt that he advocates of more intrusive u.s. foreign policy we have to show strength in america that's perceived as weak as one

that would be despised the one thing we all fear the most is a weak america what kind of. an image of america the current administration is also striving for a robust america in their own way we came we saw our guide. when folks mess with americans we go after them as the arab spring on full day the obama administration jumped on the bandwagon of the revolutions hoping to forge better all lines is the new leaders. while prompting the change with airstrikes and arms supplies when anti-american protests spread across the muslim world some asked whether it's time for the u.s. to stop meddling in the middle east and north africa i don't see how how we could ever talk about divorcing ourselves from the region if a no other reason given the push in us policy you still have two primary drivers in terms of national interest and that is oil and israel president obama has said on

allies like israel under the bus these three leaders open saber rattling toll words in french history or some tension with the white house it's clear the american people don't want to know the costly and devastating war based on phony red lines but should israel decide to attack what would the two candidates do differently if it were to happen i don't think there's going to be much difference ultimately i understand and share this or not you know whose insistence that iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon my red line is iran may not have a nuclear weapon iran is a nuclear nation is unacceptable the united states president obama said exactly the same thing regarding obama's pivot into asia there's not much daylight between him and romney either the policy involves expanding u.s. military presence to act as a counterbalance against china's growing power and to advance u.s. interests in asia pacific candidate romney showed a willingness to take that pivot to another level ramping up the pressure on

beijing i'll crack down on china having been stuck in this cold war mentality he sees the world in very black and white terms so russia is a foe china is a foe it's almost as if the cold war war never ended and that regard the pivot toward asia makes perfect sense to mr romney and i really don't think he would change anything the rhetoric is the issue the the presence of subtlety or the lack of subtlety is a primary difference between mr romney and mr obama in relations with russia on. like romney for whom russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe president obama avoids cold war rhetoric after all you don't call russia our number one enemy. not all kind of russia. unless you're still stuck in the cold war mind warp despite a more forthcoming official attitude the administration indicated that they would still forge ahead with plans to build a missile shield close to russia it's

a longstanding sore point in the relations between the two countries moscow has many times suggested resulting the issue by building the shields together to no avail i spoke with former bush administration official colonel lawrence wilkerson and asked him whether a change in the oval office could mean a drastic change in the way america deals with the world is a marvelous consistency in american foreign policy whether it's wrong headed which it has been much sense especially in one thousand nine hundred ninety the end of the cold war. but there is a marvelous consistency to it and that's because foreign policy is foreign policy and security policy so presidents say one thing and then come in and get briefed and they do another thing generally what they do is much like what the other party would do well even despite the consistency that u.s. foreign policy has shown over the years during the debate the candidates still have to outline their differences they can't just say good evening ladies and gentlemen we both agree on pretty much everything so let's call it a night so i'll be right here after the debate covering their efforts and also

every monday will be zooming into one issue one big issue you know a pretty special series of pre-election reports make sure you don't miss that from washington i'm going to check out. the killing of the u.s. ambassador to libya will dance with me one of the most sensitive issues during the debate later than former cia officer ray mcgovern told me that american missions won't be secure and less washington abandons policies which make the arab world hostile to. well obama should be able to say that our ambassadors are going to be killed our other representatives are going to be murdered unless we change our policy towards a part of the world that policy be defined by the need for oil and the need to protect what are perceived to be the interests of israel unless we change those policies we will never succeed in being able to protect our our embassies and our other diplomatic establishment well have to talk about afghanistan but if romney were smart he'd say it's a fool's errand we've got to get out of there we were wrong we ought to bring our

troops right back now why can't he say that or why is it not likely they do say that because no politician in the united states can afford the slightest risk of seeming soft on things that are described as the war on terrorism it's that simple . turning on the t.v. most americans are faced with a two horse race but it's not the full story there are other options ati's helping those known as the third party candidates gets made time and give voters a choice to they'll take a stand live with thom hartmann the host of the big picture he's that got us through it. this presidential election is not just about obama and romney there are also third party candidates on the ticket and they will influence its outcome see a debate among this nation's major third party candidates right here on our team over twenty thirty.

you're watching on t.v. and ahead probably the puns parties have made progress in spades but a separatist party's victories likely to spur breakaway calls of rank it with national star tea as we explain after this break. remains in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms between aeons the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a

language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls and by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the course was revived as an instrument that those that have suffered a fall is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i could use from

him to give you which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour broad based. before you were peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheer it up and they would. say oh you thought it was sure they can. do and was you get a are oh. but now it is the part of the song and not the actual through thinking which i wouldn't even dare try to refute. so maybe you have to be born here to

be able to sing like this i thought so until i met mall she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most sense to modern mind so that she purred from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. the lebanese military struggling to contain the violence that hit the country over the weekend after the killing of a senior intelligence official general's son who was a strong critic of syria's regime died in a car bombing friday the opposition not only blames damascus for his death was also

pointing a finger of the lebanese government and wants the prime minister to step down he's parsley is in beirut. throughout the day on monday there were sporadic clashes in the northern lebanese city of tripoli this between two neighborhoods one that supports the syrian president bashar assad and another that supports the opposition and the other day and continuing until now we have seen armed gunmen from both sides patrolling the streets and this has stoked fears of an increase in sectarian tensions so there's a lot of concern that the situation could disintegrate we're looking at a situation that has seen five people killed since friday at the same time the former lebanese prime minister saad hariri has called for both prime minister and the government to step down also if you will some time there has been concern that the situation in syria will spill over into may bring lebanon and so what we've seen is that events in syria have brought to the fore a very deep sectarian lines that lebanese suffer from you have essentially the march bloc that is led by hezbollah that supports the syrian president bashar assad

backing it out with the march the fourteenth movement that is seen as western backed it's also a movement that supports the syrian opposition but what people tend to forget is that it is not in syria's interest to have been involved in this attack on friday you also need to remember that on sunday there was a suicide bombing in damascus itself that left some thirteen people killed so here is not an invoice for saying this attempt of naming syria is merely at the traction on who the real culprits are and it is an attempt to essentially just provoking the situation. after three years toiling in opposition probably independence parties are back in power in spades basque region so presume calls are now expected to grow louder that we would see big refers to the following line the winning nationalist party described government as a brake on development in the region and vows to put its economy back on track

rather more elections in a few weeks to when the wealthiest region cut aloni of an area that's also seeing growing separatist sentiment these days so show just carlos del close told me that financial troubles are exacerbating the drive for sovereignty it's really the result of spain being a country that is basically the project united under a crown that imposed one spanish national identity on several other communities with who have their own languages in their own histories what's going on now is the economic situation is weakening the central government so much that independence now seems quite plausible ending and even favorable to the people in these regions for years there has been work being done on the ground to kind of set up the material conditions for independence that is the basque region had a more independent i guess tax system where there are taxpayer uro's would go towards the basque region in the basque autonomous region what we're seeing now is

a shift in large part due to a rejection of the previous government the incumbent government which was composed of basically of the socialists and and. so what we're seeing really is a major shift where the independent the radical left has become the second power in the region still in spain to its most of the deadly earthquake there last year could well have been manmade online reporting that the new research has come out blames water extraction for disturbing a full partly that eventually led to nine dead hundreds homeless is a really interesting read if you know speed on. one snotty dot com also the classics condensed we ask is it possible that tall stories war and peace in just one hundred forty characters twitter think she can go to fiction first of all to try to prove it to. investigators say leader of russian opposition figures handed himself into police admitted to plotting mass riots in the country you know that

j.f. is now been arrested after a recent documentary aired here in russia which claimed opposition members received millions of dollars from georgia i mean to cause mass and rest of the opposition member of self says he was tortured during questioning investigators a promise to look into the incident last week russian investigators launched criminal proceedings against another prominent opposition figure. as to critics from other world news in brief there's been a violent demonstration of course of those government assembly building in the capital with dozens of people arrested their own griot e.u. sponsored talks to improve relations with serbia insisting there should be no meeting with belgrade while it continues to claim sovereignty kosovo declared independence in two thousand and eight following britta conflicts during the breakup of yugoslavia. israel's killed two palestinian soldiers in an air raid in northern gaza which he claims is a response to militants firing mortars at the troops one of the dead men belong to harm us but the others not been identified on tuesday hamas says legitimacy will

get a boost with the first visit of a foreign leader since he took power five years ago the end of qatar's trip is seen as a step towards breaking a massive global isolation. exactly in fact there's no twenty minutes past eleven at night moscow time it katie is there katie what are the biggest deals of not just the day but the decades been struck indeed have a little about two years in the making at slayer big lead up to this one i'm talking about ross's elegy major ross and of course they all say that the pay over sixty billion dollars to buy ross's third largest oil producer t. n. k. b.p. now b.p. will get twelve billion dollars in cast an about face in ross nath stock for its heart of the company in artie's pretty boy explains the all b.p.'s side of the deal . the deal is shaping up to look like it's got two steps to it ross they have to is going to pay b.p.

just over seventeen billion dollars in cash as well as provide some twelve point eight four percent of shares of the russian state oil company to b.p. the second part of the deal is going to see b.p. use some four point eight billion dollars of the cash that rosneft are paying them in order to buy more shares of ross nash so eventually that should end up with b.p. owning just under twenty percent of shares nineteen point seven five percent to be exact of ross neff chavez. and paul explains how the deal will change the global energy industry as a whole. you can see behind me rose mia and the kremlin and this deal has been cooked up on the russian side by those troops to transfer the boy anyone's reckoning it is a sizable deal the biggest in russian think history the third biggest worldwide if you go searching the c.e.o. roles we have says rypple sixty one billion dollars worth of food paid. to create

the world's largest publicly traded oil form without it perspective expanded roles we have to have twenty seven billion pounds. for the exxon mobil's twenty five billion for petro china is twenty two billion the also change the face of the industry here in russia grows up to seventy five percent and by the state where is to increase the peak is probably or so the acquisition is an effective renationalisation of part of the oil industry and some of the chaotic properties ation program that took place in the ninety ninety's it's also in keeping with president putin's plan to create national champions in strategically important so too with nearly fifty percent of the country's oil output the in laws rules we have will certainly be done a hellish thing with the us market some of the able to say this is how they closed up in positive territory i can say that the us left one point. five point

six percent so you can see investors are a lot like in the sound of this joe the exchange rate the russian currency manister news out against the boston today meanwhile the euro continues to rebound on the u.s. stocks fold extending losses after wall street's vost single day side in nearly four months us invest says if we check out the u.s. markets consider corporate earnings growth falls i also want to mention the european markets finished in negative territory today as well so kevin it's time for me to get in my pajamas and i will see you on wednesday as a so. also i shall take it would be the bad myself separately thank you very much i should say more a day is not about right now for sure bright people have on this case discussed whether turkey has the will of the wherewithal to regain the influence it had when it was at the heart of the also an empire that's an cross told very soon i can promise you that.

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friends totty dot com. says. to. follow and welcome to crossfire thank you to all about turkey and its road ahead a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader and model for the muslim world among many turks the ottoman legacy is again back in vogue my house things have changed instead of focusing on a foreign policy of no problems with its neighbors particularly syria is ankara's foreign policy today in disarray. if you. start. to cross-talk the new ottomans i'm joined by gareth jenkins in istanbul he is a non resident senior.